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Subject: Re: 40 & 41

Author: Hans Havermann

Date: 12:47:00 03/29/98

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On March 29, 1998 at 14:17:18, Greg Manning wrote:

>> the most common length of game is where white makes 40 or 41 moves

>I suppose this is because a player makes it to the time control,
>then has time to think, realizes that it's hopeless, and resigns.

Something like this. If you look at a graph of the numbers, the approach
to the spike at 40/41 seems quite anomalous.



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